Does it feel more personal if you get rejected?

Graduate School
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<p>Since you’re being evaluated by a group of professors who go over fewer applications rather than a committee? Some of whom may actually know you (unlikely for most schools you may apply to, but still likely for perhaps a couple)</p>

<p>And does it even get more personal if the university has in the field that you’re into?</p>

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<p>it feels personal if you’ve interviewed with them… I got waitlisted at a place where I’d done a phone interview with the program director, and I could help thinking, “But we got on SO WELL, and she sounded so positive about me…”</p>